# Rhodes utility revokes water supply approvals for 3 new hotels

> Rhodes' water utility has revoked supply approvals for two new 5-star hotels and a complex resort, citing delayed infrastructure works from the Gadouras Dam.

- **Section:** New hotels
- **Published:** 2026-10-07
- **Publisher:** Voyage (https://thevoyage.gr)
- **Type:** our own summary of someone else’s reporting
- **Source:** Tornos News — https://tornosnews.gr/featured/ston-aera-nees-xenodocheiakes-ependyseis-ekat-eyro-logo-ydrodotisis.html

The Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Company of Rhodes has revoked water supply certificates and commitments for three new hotel investments, while halting the issuance of similar certificates in five municipal districts. The decision affects two new 5-star hotels in Gennadi and Lindos, as well as a complex tourist accommodation under construction in Koskinou.

The first revocation concerns a 730-bed hotel in Panagies Gennadiou, revoking a 2024 decision and a 2020 water supply certificate. The second affects a unit in Lindos approved in 2025, while the third concerns the accommodation at Latomeio Koskinou, where the sewerage connection certificate remains valid.

The main reason cited is the dissolution of a roughly €20 million contract for Phase B of water supply works from the Gadouras Dam, which included the South Aqueduct and the Afantou and Archangelos aqueducts. None of these works has been built, and Kallithea's connection to the dam remains untendered.

For the five districts (Kallithea, Afantou, Archangelos, Lindos, South Rhodes), no new water supply certificates will be issued for new hotel units, except through seawater desalination with the required permits. The decision also calls for an inventory of all certificates issued since 2015 and a ban on new drilling in these areas.

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